A Year After Rape Case, A Sense of Change in India

More Rapes Reported; Greater Outcry Against Abuse

MUMBAI—The media called her the "Park Street victim"—a 37-year-old woman who said she was gang-raped in Kolkata. Ashamed and depressed, she hid her identity in public for many months.

She has since come forward, encouraged by the overwhelming public revulsion against a fatal attack on another woman one year ago. That crime, on a bus in Delhi, and the publicity that followed have prompted a surge in the reporting of offenses...